rustication
/ruhs-ti-key-shuhn/US // ˌrʌs tɪˈkeɪ ʃən //
锈蚀,肃清,肃静,勒令退役
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : Also called rustic work .Architecture. any of various forms of ashlar so dressed and tooled that the visible faces are raised above or otherwise contrasted with the horizontal and usually the vertical joints.
- : the act of a person or thing that rusticates.
Examples
The university, too, came to its senses and revoked the rustication of the students.
It is, however, I believe, sometimes supposed that rustication gives an appearance of solidity to foundation stones.
Seven days' rustication had wrought a marked change in the town-bred girl.
Here, to recover from a state of debility thus produced, a year's rustication has been found necessary.
Formal corporal punishment would have rendered rustication unnecessary.
What else is it than to suffer exile within the same walls, actual rustication?
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